Ultimately select the few features to highlight in the one-page of alpha

2012-02-20

Recruit New Beat Writers

Recruit new writers for any orphaned beats

Plan is to post requests to dev list, blog. Then email potential candidates for specific beats discovered by mining review requests. Some beats may be tame enough, or have no features, so they may be left vacant.

2012-02-23

Fedora 17 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting

2012-02-24

Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page)

Create single page release notes for alpha

2012-02-27

Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing & Docs)

2012-02-27

Post Alpha Release Notes One-Page

2012-02-28

Alpha Public Availability

2012-02-29

Tech Notes

Generate Fedora Technical Notes based on Alpha repo

Needed by beat writers

2012-03-07

Write Unclaimed Wiki Beats

Perhaps a beta release notes party?

2012-03-07

Remind Translation: Beta Rel Notes POT Coming

2012-03-08

Remind announce-list & f-devel-announce: Wiki Freeze

Wiki freeze for beta is Mar 12. Remind Dev the window is closing

Invariably, some developer or another is disappointed that nothing about his app made in into the release notes and the wiki froze by surprise.

2012-03-09

Reminder to Trans that new POT files are coming for all guides

2012-03-12

Wiki Freeze: Beta Release Notes

2012-03-13

Port Wiki to Publican

This will probably be mostly scripted. Later conversions will be mostly manual, but this first conversion generally benefits from the automation.

2012-03-14

Start nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content

2012-03-19

Ongoing build translation review htmls

2012-03-19

Translation Deadline: Beta Release Notes (PO Files complete)

2012-03-20

Reminder to Trans that Final Guides POT files are coming

On Apr 9, last POTs will go to L10N so no more source updates

2012-03-20

Beta Change Deadline

2012-03-20

Features 100% Complete Deadline

2012-03-21

Build f-r-n.rpm and Push to updates-candidate

Needed some time before docs.fp.o so ready for beta compose

2012-03-29

Reminder: Send Project Wide-Final Release Notes Deadlines

2012-03-29

Fedora 17 Beta Release Readiness Meeting

2012-04-02

Generate nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content

2012-04-02

Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing)

2012-04-02

Reminder to Development: Wiki Freeze in 7 days

2012-04-02

Build and Post Beta release-notes to docs.fedoraproject.org

2012-04-02

Build and Post Fedora Technical Notes to docs.fedoraproject.org

2012-04-03

Beta Release Public Availability

2012-04-03

Prepare GA Release Notes

2012-04-09

String Freeze: GA Release Notes

2012-04-11

Remind Translation: RPM Freeze (no more POTs) in 5 days

2012-04-16

Port diff wiki content to Publican

2012-04-16

Generate GA Release Notes POT files for Translation

2012-04-19

Remind Translators of GA Release Notes Deadline in 4 days

Apr 23 we will begin building the release RPM so any translations not ready by then will not make it to GA

2012-04-23

Review and correct GA Release Notes (daily builds html)

2012-04-23

Build GA release note htmls for Translation

Most likely this is a continuation. Drafts should have been being build automatically on a regular basis

2012-04-25

Build fedora-release-notes.rpm

2012-04-30

Create GA Announcement (Docs & Marketing)

2012-05-01

Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go Meeting (17:00 US Eeastern)

2012-05-03

Fedora 17 Final Release Readiness Meeting

2012-05-07

0-Day rel-notes build updated rpm

2012-05-07

0-Day rel-notes update docs.fp.org

Get any changes that did not make it to GA on the the website

2012-05-07

0-Day rel-notes generate POT

2012-05-07

Add translated zero-day updates to docs.fp.org

2012-05-07

Update redirect

make d.fp.o/release-notes point to en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/index.html.